Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of the Mpala Research Centre and environs, Laikipia District, Kenya
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Northern Plains Entomology P. O. Box, 65 Willow City, ND 58384 USA
Author
Bordat, Patrice
Lagasse, F- 82300 Saint-Cirq, France
Author
Dellacasa, Giovanni
C. P. 921, I- 1612 Genova, Italy
Author
Dellacasa, Marco
Centro Interdipartimentale, Museo di Storia Naturalle e del Territorio Università di Pisa, via Roma 79, I- 56011 Calci (Pisa) Italy
text
Insecta Mundi
2008
2008-03-03
2008
28
1
15
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.4532811
1942-1354
4532811
Plagiogonus tertius
(Bordat)
,
n. comb.
Aphodius
(
Plagiogonus
)
tertius
Bordat, 1992a: 136
.
Plagiogonus tertius
:
Bordat, 2005: 54
.
Specimens examined (3)
:
Laikipia
,
MRC
,
1800 m
,
N00
o
17’
-
E36
o
53’
,
1-13.
V
.2003
, #1, leg. R.
Gordon
, cattle dung (1);
idem
, leg.
R
.
Gordon
,
Impala
dung (1)
;
Laikipia
,
MRC
,
1800 m
,
N00
o
17’
-
E36
o
53’
,
1- 13.
V
.2002
, #7, leg. R.
Gordon
, cattle dung (1). (
NMK
) (
USNM
)
.
Geographical distribution
:
Kenya
.
Dung preference
: Almost certainly a generalist, found in dung of cattle and impala.